A new measurement of muon capture in liquid deuterium

The lifetime technique has been used for the first time to measure the muon capture rate in ultra-pure liquid deuterium. The result: _c ^D=470±29 s^–1, is to be interpreted as the capture rate in thed Doublet spin state.Presented at the symposium Mesons and Light Nuclei, Bechyn, Czechoslovakia, May 27–June 1, 1985.     

Precision measurement of nuclear muon capture by3He

In this article we report the results of an experiment performed in 1993 at PSI. The goal was to determine the absolute rate of nuclear muon capture by³He. In the experiment we used a new technique recently developed at Gatchina. As a preliminary result from this experiment we obtained _c=(1496±3(stat)-3(syst)) s^–1.     

Muon capture in Ar. The muon lifetime and yields of Cl isotopes

The time and energy spectra of γ rays, accompanying negative muon capture in a ⁴⁰Ar target, have been measured using Ge detectors. The results of measuring the muon lifetime in ⁴⁰Ar and yields of different Cl and S isotopes at μ capture are reported.     

Hard pions and axial meson exchange current effects in negative muon capture in deuterium

The contribution of the axial meson exchange current effects to the doublet transition rate in the reaction μ^? +d → 2n+ ν_μ is calculated by using the minimal, chiral and approximately gauge invariant Lagrangian model for the A₁ρπ system. The contribution from the ρ-π weak decay process current usually considered is found to be nearly cancelled by that from the A₁ pole graph which is prescribed by the underlying invariance principles. Correct treatment of the N¹ propagator in the N¹ excitation current of the pion range leads to ≈ 30 % suppression of the N¹ effect.     

Induced pseudoscalar interaction in weak nucleon current and muon capture in hyperfine states of muonic deuterium

Muon capture rate in muonic deuterium can be calculated with less ambiguities in nuclear wave functions, since we know the bound and scattering states of the two nucleons with higher accuracy theoretically. It is, however, dependent on the pion-nucleon-delta coupling constant through the exchange current effect. This dependence is considerably reduced for the ratio of the capture rates from two hyperfine states of muonic deuterium. This ratio is, therefore, useful to study the strength of the induced pseudoscalar term. Several other physical quantities in light nuclei are also introduced here for the same purpose.     

A microscopic theory of muon capture in nuclei

The muon capture rates are calculated for a series of nuclei, using the Hartree-Fock randomphase approximation, and compared with experiment. The recoil term, the binding energy of the muon and finite size effects are calculated in detail. In a schematic model, the validity of the assumption M²_V = M²_A = M²_P is studied, and found to hold reasonably well even for nuclei as heavy as ²⁰⁸Pb.     

Neutron-neutron interaction and muon capture by deutron

The reaction μ⁻ + d → 2n + v_μ is studied in the non-relativistic approximation using the Primakoff weak interaction Hamiltonian including relativistic corrections. The neutron-neutron interaction is treated (a) by the Om?es-Muskhelishvili equation, (b) in a potential model, (c) using the Bethe-Longmire procedure. Influence of D-state admixture in deutron upon the transition rates and neutron spectrum is investigated.     

Neutron asymmetry in muon capture by few-nucleon systems

Importance of the velocity dependent terms upon the form of the energy dependence of the neutron asymmetry in muon capture by deuterons is demonstrated.     

Precision measurement of the rate of nuclear muon capture in the muonic hydrogen atom and the determination of the pseudoscalar form factor of the nucleon

The rate Λ _S of nuclear muon capture by a proton from the hyperfine singlet ground state of the µp atom has been measured using a new experimental method based on a time-projection chamber operating in an ultrapure hydrogen gas at a pressure of 10 atm. The capture rate has been determined from the difference between the measured lifetime of the negative muon in hydrogen and the world average lifetime of the positive muon. The analysis of 10% of the collected statistics (2 × 10¹⁰) of µe decays yields the muon capture rate Λ _S = 725.0 ± 17.4 s^?1, from which the pseudoscalar form factor of the nucleon, g _P (q _c ² = ?0.88m _µ ² ) = 7.3 ± 1.1, is determined. The further analysis of the collected experimental data should improve the precision of this measurement by a factor of 3.     

Negative muon capture in3He

We compute the partial capture rate of negative muons in³He by following the analysis of Peterson to include the relativistic corrections and the exchange effects, for various values of theg _p /g _A ratio. We also calculate the total capture rate. The ground state of³He is assumed to be spherical. The radial dependence of the ground state wave function is taken to be (a) one parameter Irving function, (b) a modified three-parameter Irving function and (c) a function having ‘soft-core’, whose parameters have been fixed in a variational calculation of the binding energy of the triton using a non-local momentum-dependent potential involvingp ² terms. The calculated values of the capture rates are compared with the experimental data to find a value for theg _p /g _A ratio.     

液氘状态方程实验数据测量

在神光Ⅱ高功率激光装置上建立了液氘状态方程实验研究系统, 在80 min内实现控温范围12–300 K可调、控温精度±0.03 K、机械震动 ≤20 μm的实验控制精度; 通过镀膜窗口质量筛选和靶体清洁工作解决了低温下窗口材料残余反射率高的难题, 获得了信噪比较好的实验图像; 利用神光II第九路输出3ω (351 nm)、3 ns、1000 J的能力, 采用阻抗匹配方法, 配合任意反射面速度干涉仪诊断系统, 在国内首次获得液氘在约60 GPa压力下的冲击绝热线实验数据, 数据与国外同压力区间数据符合较好, 为下阶段约100 GPa压力范围液氘状态方程的实验研究奠定了基础.     

Radiative muon capture in medium-heavy nuclei

Radiative muon capture in nuclei is thoroughly investigated in view of its sensitivity to the pseudoscalar coupling constant g_P. In the photon energy domain of interest (k ? 60 MeV) the effective one-body hamiltonian in use is shown essentially to hold true, with minor corrections due to the muon propagator in the nuclear field and to the two-step process. The closure approximation is avoided by appropriately integrating the response function calculated in the Fermi gas model, in the energy-momentum transfer plane.Theoretical predictions in medium-heavy nuclei of the high-energy photon spectrum, of photon polarization, and of muon-spin photon angular correlation are given for various values of the pseudoscalar coupling constant.     

Kinematical and dynamical considerations of muon capture by deuteron

Proton inducedL X-ray yields from thick targets of In, Sn, Nd, Dy, Pt and Au have been measured in the energy range 1–3 MeV. Cross-sections have been derived from these thick target yields and are compared with the predictions of non relativistic PWBA, BEA and CBEA theories. The ratios σ_Lα/σ_Ll, σ_Lα/σ_Lβ and σ_Lα/σ_Lγ are also presented.     

Neutrino disintegration and muon capture in the deuteron

Neutrino and antineutrino disintegration of the deuteron and muon capture in the deuteron are studied. The final-state interaction between the nucleons is considered. The two-nucleon final state is found for the realistic potentials suggested by Reid and Ulehla et al.     

Measurement of the muon capture rate in hydrogen gas and determination of the proton's pseudoscalar coupling gP

The rate of nuclear muon capture by the proton has been measured using a new technique based on a time projection chamber operating in ultraclean, deuterium-depleted hydrogen gas, which is key to avoiding uncertainties from muonic molecule formation. The capture rate from the hyperfine singlet ground state of the microp atom was obtained from the difference between the micro(-) disappearance rate in hydrogen and the world average for the micro(+) decay rate, yielding Lambda(S)=725.0+/-17.4 s(-1), from which the induced pseudoscalar coupling of the nucleon, g(P)(q(2)=-0.88m(2)(micro))=7.3+/-1.1, is extracted.     

Time reversal test in the nuclear muon capture

Possible effects of breaking CP-symmetry are looked for in the muon capture by a linearly polarized target nucleus. With this aim the recoil polarization in the partial transitions \(0\xrightarrow{{\mu ^ - }}I,1/2\xrightarrow{{\mu ^ - }}J\) and \(1\xrightarrow{{\mu ^ - }}I\) is investigated in a nuclear model independent way. It is shown that the hyperfine structure of the muonic atom significantly influences theT-odd correlations in the recoil polarization formula, and the expectation for theT- odd signal in case of the linearly polarized target is higher by one order of magnitude. We obtain the complete set of theT-odd observables which could enter the polarization formula. As an example, within the impulse approximation for the weak interaction hamiltonian, we analyse the nonstandard, CP-breaking extension of the Fermi theory using complex Fujii-Primakoff form factorG _V e^iφ .     

A measurement of the τ lifetime

We have reconstructed 695 three-track τ decay vertices using a high resolution drift chamber close to the interaction point. From the distribution of decay lengths we measure the lifetime to be (3.06 ±0.20±0.14)×10⁻¹³ s. Using this result we find that the ratio of charged weak coupling constant for the τ to that of the μ,G _τ/G _μ=0.967±0.040 consistent with the concept of lepton universality. On leave from Warsaw University, Poland Now at Hasylab, DESY Supported by Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie Supported by UK Science and Engineering Research Council Supported by CAICYT Supported by the Minerva Gesellschaft für Forschung GmbH Supported by US Dept. of Energy, contract DE-AC02-76ER000881 and by US Nat. Sci. Foundation Grant no INT-8313994 for travel Partially supported by grant CPBP 01.06     

Dopper shift attenuation lifetime measurement in 54Cr following thermal neutron capture

The double crystal spectrometer GAMS4 in combination with the ILL high flux reactor has been used to determine the lifetimes of the 2620 KeV 2⁺₂, 3074 KeV 2⁺₃ and 3720 KeV (1, 2)⁺ states in ⁵⁴Cr. The initial recoil energy of about 0.5 KeV imparted by the primary γ-radiation after thermal neutron capture in ⁵³Cr produces Doppler broadened line shapes of the secondary transitions. The large 2⁺₃→2⁺₁ M1 strength of B(M1)=0.39(6) μ²_N suggests the 2⁺₃ state to be mixed symmetry character within the interacting boson model IBM-2.